Seeing red

Type

Book

Authors

Erskine, Kathryn

ISBN 13

9780545464406

Tags

Automobile repair shops, families, fathers, grief, prejudice, Preteen Boys, race relations, small towns, Twelve-year-old boys

Abstract

When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.

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